Re: On init in Debian
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 11:06:22AM +0100, Bernd Zeimetz wrote:
> Common init scripts are short enough to make them easy to debug. Its
> more annoying when these shellscripts call other shellscripts which call
> other shellscripts - but that is a different issue which needs to be
> solved - but not necessarily in the init system.
However debugging shell scripts is only easy if you already are a shell-script
and sysvinit expert already. When a non-expert opens say /etc/init.d/ssh,
figuring out what went wrong is not going to be easy.
Sure systemd is unfamiliar and daunting now, but there is no reason to believe
the people who have learned howto handle sysvinit scripts wouldn't learn
systemd. In fact, if the systemd configuration files describe typical idioms
of services well enough, it will be easier to learn than the spagethi sysvinit
scripts sometimes end up being.
Riku
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